[shalmanese]

Curious for people who think this is unethical how they think about swag at conference booths?

The range of practices I’ve seen go from just come up to the booth to get some trinket to put in your email address to get something a bit more valuable to listen to our 5m spiel and you can pull something out of a claw machine.

Is there a line there that you personally wouldn’t cross? A line that’s prohibited by your company policy? A line that you believe makes a company unethical and should be prohibited? Curious where everyone falls on this.

[cafard]

Some years ago I declined an iPod offered me for answering survey questions, since accepting it was against organization policy.

At a recent AWS Summit, I picked up a pair of socks from a company with a name that was homonym of an acquaintance's, and a rubber sumo from Sumo Logic. Both got my email address. These strike me as being under the threshold of concern.

[shalmanese]

As in you took the survey but declined the iPod or you didn't take the survey because they offered an iPod?